May 2012 – Apache OpenOffice 3.4 released.February 2012 – LibreOffice 3.5 released.June 2011 – Oracle announces that they will contribute (the trademark and the code) to the Apache Software Foundation.April 2011 – Oracle announces that it will no longer be supporting development of.This is the first stable version of the product. January 2011 – LibreOffice 3.3 was released (based on 3.3).The concerns were understood since Oracle took the OpenSolaris project, which had been around for nearly 20-years, and discontinued open development of it. September 2010 – Some members that worked on started “The Document Foundation” due to concern over the future of now that Oracle owns it.January 2010 – Oracle buys Sun Microsystems.… almost 10 years goes by with several major and successful releases.October 2000 – An open source version of StarOffice, called, was released.August 1999 – Sun Microsystems buys a company (StarDivision) and gets StarOffice.Why did LibreOffice start up in the first place? For that lets take a brief look at a timeline of events: About two years ago LibreOffice forked the code and began their own project. So what are the differences between (now called Apache OpenOffice) and LibreOffice. Many of the Linux distributions started making the switch over a year ago, but people are still just getting wind of it. One of the things I’ve had a lot of comments on is how several Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, and most others) have stopped shipping with their operating systems and have switched to LibreOffice. I know some people who are casual Linux users that periodically fire up new releases of popular distributions to see how things are going in the world of Linux.
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